Online Learning Update

January 22, 2012

Numerous Brentwood students suspended over Internet breach

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:03 am

by Rick Wills, PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW

A number of Brentwood High School students face one-day suspensions for using a free Internet program to access websites that had been blocked from school computers, according to a letter sent to parents. The letter states the students’ Internet, network and computer privileges will be suspended for the third nine weeks of the school year. At first, 83 students were given suspensions, after additional searches were done on school computers, the number grew to more than 100, she said. Wired magazine in 2010 said Ultrasurf is “one of the most important free-speech tools on the Internet.” It was designed to thwart Chinese government Internet firewalls and has millions of users, the magazine said. And in a 2007 study, Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society found Ultrasurf to be the “best-performing” of all tested circumvention tools.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_776738.html

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